39, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1385154
Date first listed:: 31-Dec-1973
List Entry Name:: 39, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 39, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1385154
Date first listed:: 31-Dec-1973
List Entry Name:: 39, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 39, HIGH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 39, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Barnstaple
National Grid Reference:: SS 55759 33343

Details

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE HIGH STREET 684-1/7/138 (East side) 31/12/73 No.39

GV II*

Shop with rooms above. C14 or early C15; front range rebuilt early C18, rear wing extended C19. Front range is of red brick (Flemish bond), painted at the front, rendered at the back. Rear wing is wholly rendered, rear gable-wall of the older part, and possibly also the side walls, is of stone rubble. Slated roofs with red ridge-tiles, the rear wing tarred. No chimneys, unless an old red-brick stack on the right side wall of the wing belongs to this building rather than to No.38A (qv). L-shaped plan with narrow courtyard on left side of the rear wing; latter may be basically a medieval open hall. Front range is one-room deep with cross-passage at left-hand end of ground storey; staircase in left-hand rear corner. 3 storeys at front, 2 in the wing. Front to High Street is 3-window range. Ground storey has late C20 shop front. Both sets of upper-storey windows have segmental arches with keyblocks, those in 3rd storey fluted. All now contain fixed 12-pane, late C20 sashes; those in 3rd storey formerly had flush-framed 6-pane sashes. Rear wall of front range has at left side a late C16 to mid C17 wooden, ovolo-moulded mullioned window of 2 lights (probably re-set); right-hand (south) light blocked, but left-hand (north) light contains an early or mid C19 wooden casement of 15 panes, 2 of them with old, greenish glass. INTERIORS: front range contains little of interest, except for first-floor window seats, with ovolo-moulded panelled fronts and a similar 2-panelled door. Entirely plain staircase cut through 2 apertures in rear wall. Roof space not accessible. Rear wing is similarly featureless, except for the roof space, but under the plaster the walls may contain blocked windows, doorways and fireplaces of an early date. The roof-structure is of major importance, dating probably from the C14 or early C15. It comprises 2 trusses with cranked collars, 2 tiers of through purlins and a square-set ridge-piece; nearly all the common rafters are old, and possibly original. The front truss has a small rectangular projection below the centre of the collar; the ridge is clasped between the tops of the principal rafters and supported by a triangular strengthening piece. The rear truss differs in having a saddle to support the ridge. Both trusses have scratched carpenter's marks, though not obviously in numbered sequence. There is some evidence of smoke-blackening from a former open hearth, especially at the front end, but it is not heavy compared with many rural medieval roofs in Devon. The different character of the rear truss and the reduced blackening at that end may suggest that the wing was extended during the Middle Ages. The boxed feet of the trusses are visible on the first floor; the curve on the left side end may crucks or jointed crucks. 2 chimney-breasts are visible on right hand side of roof-space: one of brick at front and one of stone with occasional bricks at rear. Medieval roof-trusses, especially of this early type, are rare in Devon towns. If, as seems likely, the rear wing was an open hall, then this is also a medieval urban house type not known elsewhere in the county.

Listing NGR: SS5575933343

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.